@BioTech 548408 wrote:

To be fair, I don’t really now what modern hardstyle sounds like, and the stuff I used to call hardstyle is probably now lumped together with Hard Trance.

Modern hardstyle is essentially what all present day hardstyle sounds like. Most of it sounds the same and artists do little to create a unique and distinctive sound. I remember when I first started listening to it and the tracks I was hearing from the early 2000s were all fresh and different. Now it is difficult to determine one DJ’s set from another cos they all go for the same sound to please the masses rather than the true hardstyle fanatics.

I understand perfectly why so many people like us who prefer the alternative way of life turn their noses up at hardstyle now.

Also yes, Hennes and Cold always have and always will be hard trance to me, nothing wrong with that though.